A speeding ticket is a class B misdemeanor. Look it up.
I have looked it up. You are wrong. Here's one source out of thousands:
A traffic infraction is a civil violation such as your basic speeding ticket. DUI & Traffic Crimes
Most states don't have the jail space for illegal aliens, so in the past 30 years, even though it's officially listed as a FELONY, it's become in practice a MISDEMEANOR.
One of thousands of cites that disagree with you:
mere status as an alien, or even as an illegal alien, may only be a civil violation of the Act and thus would not be a sufficient basis for an arrest. Opinion of the NY Attorney General
Next time you want to prove someone wrong, you should actually check your facts by posting them in your rebuttal. Otherwise you end up wasting everyone's time.
On average, illegal immigrants kill 25 American citizens every day. That's more than soldiers dying in Iraq - that's 12-14 times the number of people dead since 9/11 than died on 9/11.
Those numbers are made up by people with an interest in skewing the results. There is no formal statistically sound basis for those claims. But you are quoting a fear-mongering politician, what do you expect?
The guy just pulled the device keys for windvd and/or powerdvd from system memory. People have already been pulling the volume keys from memory so this was just an incremental step. The keys will be revoked (which really means that future discs will not include support for the compromised device keys, there is no actual 'taking back' of the keys as the word 'revoke' tends to imply).
One key thing to take away from this is that the authors of the software made it really easy to pull the device keys out of memory for two reasons
They kept them in variables that were physically near the variables for the volume key
They zero-ed them out after use, leaving big gaping holes of zeros in memory in a place where that kind of looked funny, drawing attention to those areas
If they are smart (and if the MPAA even give them another chance), the powerdvd/windvd authors will reimplement their AACS decryption code to never store the keys in memory. Without double-checking, I believe the keys are only 128 bits, they could be loaded into the SSE registers in encrypted form and then decrypted on chip. The authors will still need to take measures to prevent an OS context switch from storing the registers in kernel-private memory during the period in which the device keys are present, but that is not an extended period of time, presumably they can kick their priority up high enough that it won't happen without hurting the system much.
Even that approach isn't hack-proof, but it is a lot harder to dump the cpu registers under such conditions than it is to trace memory accesses.
On an H1B, it is illegal for you to form a business that you are an active investor in. This is part of the "contract" you enter into to become an H1B. However, if you were an illegal alien, it would be just fine. For a prime example of this, check into the history of Philippe Kahn, founder of Borland Software Corporation, creators of Turbo Pascal.
It isn't really so unbelievable. For all the huffing and puffing over illegal immigration, the crime itself is relatively minor. That's one reason I have to laugh everytime a dittohead pops a vein about how illegal aliens are criminals just as bad as murders and rapists.
Overstaying a visa (which is how about 40% of illegal immigrants get here) is not even a criminal offense, not even a misdemeanor, just a civil offense like a speeding ticket. The guys who sneak across the border without ever getting a visa in the first place are only guilty of a misdemeanor.
Yep, cause this code I have right here that replaces the TPM checking modules in OS X is just a figment of my imagination. Go away fanboy.
Your code is obsolete. It was for the bootloader of some of the beta releases. TPM checks are not implemented in the bootloader of the current shipping release. You are going to have do a hell of a lot better than that if you want to dispute the photographic evidence at the other end of those links. The only fanboy here is you and your maui wowee, brah.
I know exactly how it is run, you've been lead around by the nose, its called didactics. You've now stated that VMware can't support OS X any more than any hardware vendor can support it. So how could VMware be guilty of contributory infringement?
How in hell are Vmware/Parallels bound by a license agreement between a Apple & an Apple customer?
That would be the joy of contributory copyright infringement. I don't know why this is at all surprising...
So, what's the difference between EMC/VMware selling a virtual machine that can run MacOS X in violation of the owner's license and a hardware vendor selling a machine that can run MacOS X in violation of the owner's license?
Here's where your argument about contributory copyright infringement falls apart... It is a license violation to break the EULA not a copyright violation. The EULA is a contract that goes above and beyond the terms of copyright, just because you break the terms of the contract does not mean you are violating the terms of copyright.
Actually, they rolled it out for a few days without checking for browser type. These guys were reporting on the browser problems before Wal-mart started blocking non-IE browsers.
My impression is that the developers are "low-bidder" types who didn't even conceive that non-IE browsers exist until people started making fun of them. I believe that because of the reports of all the terrible coding and excessive waste of bandwidth in the source for the pages that the video section is serving out.
Slashdot: Where defining "patent trolling" with the language of an asinine thirteen-year-old will get you modded "insightful"! Hooray!
In kindergarten we learned that sharing is good. It sure looks like all of the people in the software patent industry haven't even graduated from kindergarten yet. So calling them names like a 13 year old actually seems a little better than they deserve.
"We're going to look at a fundamental piece of enabling technology. Maybe its hypervisors, I don't know what it is... Maybe it's a new user interface paradigm for consumers. It's too early for me to talk about it... But over the next few months I think you're going to start hearing more and more."
Oh come on, with a name like Vienna we all know the only major upgrade will be more DRM. MS and Hollywood want to lock us all up in a tiny little can of DRM control, just like a bunch of Vienna sausages.
But in a post-9/11 U.S.A., the authorities have to assume things like this could be terrorist in nature and respond as if they were.
Security isn't free. Just look at this case - it cost at least $2M, and it did absolutely nothing to increase anyone's security. Do you really think that it is wise to spending our limited resources on ridiculously easy to verify non-threats? Does wasting money like that really increase security or just increase the control of the state?
That is illegal. An H1B MUST be paid the market rate. No doing so is the same as hiring an illegal worker.
So what if it is illegal? There is zero money in the federal budget for enforcement, busting a company for underpaying H1-B's is nearly impossible the way the system is set up. Everybody involved knows this, especially the people in each company that are in charge of paying the H1-B's.
While you have a point, it is mitigated by the circumstances surrounding the photos.
The entire point of make-up being to hide imperfections, it is unlikely that she would have a "before" photo without make-up, especially if she had low self-esteem about her looks. If she had such a clinical "before" photo of her own, there would be plenty of people arguing that it was proof of premeditation to sue the doctor.
If she were to wear make-up in the "after" photo it would also mitigate the effects of the surgically created imperfections which would not help her point at all, she wants to demonstrate the problem, not cover it up. Also, one of the reasons women get such work done in the first place is to reduce their perceived need to wear make-up, so if the surgery had gone well, she would not be wearing as much make-up as she had been before the surgery.
Similarly it is unlikely that she would have a "before" photo that wasn't happy, people don't like to take pictures of unhappy times in their lives. You can't expect her to pose for an "after" photo and look happy - she's taking the photo specifically because she is unhappy, it would be ridiculous to expect her to be all smiles about it. Because she feels extremely unhappy with her new looks taking a picture, even in an attempt to get restitution or correction, is going to be an unpleasant experience for her.
Camera and angle and lighting are much more likely to be the result of the amateur nature of both photos than any sort of explicit plan to manipulate the viewer.
So, while I agree that her presentation is not necessarily evenhanded, I really doubt that it was calculated. At the very worst, she probably picked one of her better looking "before" pics and one of her worst "after" pics, but that's no different from a plastic surgeon who does the reverse in his marketing materials.
If we painted all stupid people orange. Then we would know to just stay away from those ones.
No, no, no!
Paint the terrorists orange! We could even pass a law to make it sure it is illegal to be a terrorist and not be orange. They could call it the Real ID Act! That way we will always be safe because we know who the evil doers are!!
He's talking about the Roman Catholic Church in general, and his statement is generally true.
The only reason the Catholic church doesn't meddle is because they've lost the influence to make a difference. It doesn't stop them from trying and in countries like the Philippines, where the population is 94% catholic, the Church still exercises enormous political influence. For example, there are no condom factories in the entire country - they all have to be imported, primarily because of the Church's anti-contraception policy.
Fingerprints are bad enough, but at least they aren't much use beyond identification (and any abuses of identification).
But DNA? They say they are collecting it for identification, but it's practically your personal biological blueprint. Once enough of the population has their DNA recorded, you can expect to see all kinds of non-identification uses and novel abuses. Expect to see the data sold to companies that do background checks, so that potential employers can check for the "alcohol abuse gene" or the "predisposed to violent rage" gene, or subtle forms of racial discrimination like the gene that causes sickle-cell anemia.
Who knows what the future holds? Privacy is like Pandora's Box - once you give it away, you can never get it back. Anyone clinging to the, "If you haven't done anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about" meme just lacks imagination.
Wasn't this exact problem in the list of DRM-created pointless sucks from the "Vista - Longest Suicide Note in History" paper? I seem to recall craptastic echo-cancellation was expected due to the secure-path audio drivers not allowing any other software to listen to the outgoing sounds. MS's rebuttal said that they thought the API provided enough information to do echo cancellation anyway. I guess they were wrong. Surprise!
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I have looked it up. You are wrong. Here's one source out of thousands: Most states don't have the jail space for illegal aliens, so in the past 30 years, even though it's officially listed as a FELONY, it's become in practice a MISDEMEANOR.
One of thousands of cites that disagree with you:
Next time you want to prove someone wrong, you should actually check your facts by posting them in your rebuttal. Otherwise you end up wasting everyone's time.
On average, illegal immigrants kill 25 American citizens every day. That's more than soldiers dying in Iraq - that's 12-14 times the number of people dead since 9/11 than died on 9/11.
Those numbers are made up by people with an interest in skewing the results. There is no formal statistically sound basis for those claims. But you are quoting a fear-mongering politician, what do you expect?
One key thing to take away from this is that the authors of the software made it really easy to pull the device keys out of memory for two reasons
- They kept them in variables that were physically near the variables for the volume key
- They zero-ed them out after use, leaving big gaping holes of zeros in memory in a place where that kind of looked funny, drawing attention to those areas
If they are smart (and if the MPAA even give them another chance), the powerdvd/windvd authors will reimplement their AACS decryption code to never store the keys in memory. Without double-checking, I believe the keys are only 128 bits, they could be loaded into the SSE registers in encrypted form and then decrypted on chip. The authors will still need to take measures to prevent an OS context switch from storing the registers in kernel-private memory during the period in which the device keys are present, but that is not an extended period of time, presumably they can kick their priority up high enough that it won't happen without hurting the system much.Even that approach isn't hack-proof, but it is a lot harder to dump the cpu registers under such conditions than it is to trace memory accesses.
On an H1B, it is illegal for you to form a business that you are an active investor in. This is part of the "contract" you enter into to become an H1B. However, if you were an illegal alien, it would be just fine. For a prime example of this, check into the history of Philippe Kahn, founder of Borland Software Corporation, creators of Turbo Pascal.
It isn't really so unbelievable. For all the huffing and puffing over illegal immigration, the crime itself is relatively minor. That's one reason I have to laugh everytime a dittohead pops a vein about how illegal aliens are criminals just as bad as murders and rapists.
Overstaying a visa (which is how about 40% of illegal immigrants get here) is not even a criminal offense, not even a misdemeanor, just a civil offense like a speeding ticket. The guys who sneak across the border without ever getting a visa in the first place are only guilty of a misdemeanor.
Yep, cause this code I have right here that replaces the TPM checking modules in OS X is just a figment of my imagination. Go away fanboy.
Your code is obsolete. It was for the bootloader of some of the beta releases. TPM checks are not implemented in the bootloader of the current shipping release. You are going to have do a hell of a lot better than that if you want to dispute the photographic evidence at the other end of those links. The only fanboy here is you and your maui wowee, brah.
I know exactly how it is run, you've been lead around by the nose, its called didactics. You've now stated that VMware can't support OS X any more than any hardware vendor can support it. So how could VMware be guilty of contributory infringement?
You're talking about Mac clones..
No I'm not. I am talking about any of myriad white box and brand-new PCs that have the right CPUs and the right video hardware to run Mac OS X.
Not to mention that fact that you'd have to load the TPM chips with the Apple keys, which would also be a copyright violation.
If TPM chips are necessary to run the OS, how would a virtualized system run them without the Apple TPM chip?
Still didn't explain how selling hardware the contributes to copyright infringement is any different from selling software that does the same thing.
Here's where your argument about contributory copyright infringement falls apart... It is a license violation to break the EULA not a copyright violation. The EULA is a contract that goes above and beyond the terms of copyright, just because you break the terms of the contract does not mean you are violating the terms of copyright.
Actually, they rolled it out for a few days without checking for browser type. These guys were reporting on the browser problems before Wal-mart started blocking non-IE browsers.
My impression is that the developers are "low-bidder" types who didn't even conceive that non-IE browsers exist until people started making fun of them. I believe that because of the reports of all the terrible coding and excessive waste of bandwidth in the source for the pages that the video section is serving out.
MS and Hollywood want to lock us all up in a tiny little can of DRM control, just like a bunch of Vienna sausages.
GCP is in the words of Penn&Teller: Bullshit
Didn't those two say the same thing about global warming?
But in a post-9/11 U.S.A., the authorities have to assume things like this could be terrorist in nature and respond as if they were.
Security isn't free. Just look at this case - it cost at least $2M, and it did absolutely nothing to increase anyone's security. Do you really think that it is wise to spending our limited resources on ridiculously easy to verify non-threats? Does wasting money like that really increase security or just increase the control of the state?
That is illegal. An H1B MUST be paid the market rate. No doing so is the same as hiring an illegal worker.
So what if it is illegal? There is zero money in the federal budget for enforcement, busting a company for underpaying H1-B's is nearly impossible the way the system is set up. Everybody involved knows this, especially the people in each company that are in charge of paying the H1-B's.
While you have a point, it is mitigated by the circumstances surrounding the photos.
The entire point of make-up being to hide imperfections, it is unlikely that she would have a "before" photo without make-up, especially if she had low self-esteem about her looks. If she had such a clinical "before" photo of her own, there would be plenty of people arguing that it was proof of premeditation to sue the doctor.
If she were to wear make-up in the "after" photo it would also mitigate the effects of the surgically created imperfections which would not help her point at all, she wants to demonstrate the problem, not cover it up. Also, one of the reasons women get such work done in the first place is to reduce their perceived need to wear make-up, so if the surgery had gone well, she would not be wearing as much make-up as she had been before the surgery.
Similarly it is unlikely that she would have a "before" photo that wasn't happy, people don't like to take pictures of unhappy times in their lives. You can't expect her to pose for an "after" photo and look happy - she's taking the photo specifically because she is unhappy, it would be ridiculous to expect her to be all smiles about it. Because she feels extremely unhappy with her new looks taking a picture, even in an attempt to get restitution or correction, is going to be an unpleasant experience for her.
Camera and angle and lighting are much more likely to be the result of the amateur nature of both photos than any sort of explicit plan to manipulate the viewer.
So, while I agree that her presentation is not necessarily evenhanded, I really doubt that it was calculated. At the very worst, she probably picked one of her better looking "before" pics and one of her worst "after" pics, but that's no different from a plastic surgeon who does the reverse in his marketing materials.
If we painted all stupid people orange. Then we would know to just stay away from those ones.
No, no, no!
Paint the terrorists orange! We could even pass a law to make it sure it is illegal to be a terrorist and not be orange. They could call it the Real ID Act! That way we will always be safe because we know who the evil doers are!!
He's talking about the Roman Catholic Church in general, and his statement is generally true.
The only reason the Catholic church doesn't meddle is because they've lost the influence to make a difference. It doesn't stop them from trying and in countries like the Philippines, where the population is 94% catholic, the Church still exercises enormous political influence. For example, there are no condom factories in the entire country - they all have to be imported, primarily because of the Church's anti-contraception policy.
Fingerprints are bad enough, but at least they aren't much use beyond identification (and any abuses of identification).
But DNA? They say they are collecting it for identification, but it's practically your personal biological blueprint. Once enough of the population has their DNA recorded, you can expect to see all kinds of non-identification uses and novel abuses. Expect to see the data sold to companies that do background checks, so that potential employers can check for the "alcohol abuse gene" or the "predisposed to violent rage" gene, or subtle forms of racial discrimination like the gene that causes sickle-cell anemia.
Who knows what the future holds? Privacy is like Pandora's Box - once you give it away, you can never get it back. Anyone clinging to the, "If you haven't done anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about" meme just lacks imagination.
It just shows people don't trust democracy any more and that they definitely don't trust the people that they voted into power.
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner.
You are damn right the people don't trust democracy, and they shouldn't either.
My point was that proof by regurgitated insult isn't any proof at all.
Ultrahard fullerite is close to twice as hard
I think you've been reading too much herbal v1agra spam.
Wasn't this exact problem in the list of DRM-created pointless sucks from the "Vista - Longest Suicide Note in History" paper? I seem to recall craptastic echo-cancellation was expected due to the secure-path audio drivers not allowing any other software to listen to the outgoing sounds. MS's rebuttal said that they thought the API provided enough information to do echo cancellation anyway. I guess they were wrong. Surprise!